Education, training and youth activitiesplay a key role in providing people of all ages with the necessary means

to participate
actively in the labour market and in society at large. Projects under this Action promote transnational mobility activities
targeting learners (students, trainees, apprentices, young peopleand volunteers), and staff (professors, teachers, trainers, youth
workers, and people working in organisations active in the education, training and youth fields) and aiming to:

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support learners in the acquisition of competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) with a view to improving their
personal development and employability in the European labour market;
support the professional development of those who work in education, training and youth with a view to
innovating and improving the quality of teaching, training and youth work across Europe;
enhancenotably the participants' foreign languages competence;
raise participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to
build networks of international contacts, to actively participate in society anddevelop a sense of European citizenship
and identity;
increasethe capacities, attractiveness and international dimension of organisations active in the education, training
and youth fields so that they are able to offer activities and programmes that better respond to the needs of
individuals, within and outside Europe;
reinforce synergies and transitions between formal, non-formal education, vocational training, employment and
entrepreneurship;
ensure a better recognition of competences gained through the learning periods abroad.
This Action also supports international mobility activities from or to Partner Countries in the fields of higher
educationand youth. In this context, the further aims of the Action are to:
enhance the attractiveness of higher education in Europe and support European higher education institutions in
competing on the higher education market worldwide;
support the internationalisation, attractiveness and modernisation of higher education institutions outside Europe
in view of promoting the development of Partner Countries;
promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with Partner Countries.

In addition,in line with the annual Work Programme adopted by the Commission, priority will be given to projects
that pursue one or more of the relevant priorities described in the introduction chapterson"Education and Training"
and "Youth" in Part B of this Guide.

WHAT IS A MOBILITY PROJECT?

Organisations active in the fields of education,training and youth will receive support from the Erasmus+Programme
to carry out projects promoting different types of mobility. A mobility project will consist of the following stages:
Preparation (including practical arrangements, selection of participants, set up of agreements with partners and
participants, linguistic/intercultural/task-related preparation of participants before departure);

Implementation of the mobility activities;

Follow-up (including the evaluation of theactivities, the formal recognition -where applicable -of the learning
outcomes of participants during the activity, as well as the dissemination and use of the project's outcomes).

An important innovation introduced in Erasmus+ compared to many actions of mobility supported under past
European programmes is that Erasmus+ reinforces the support offeredtothe participants of mobility activities in
improving their foreign language competences beforeand during their stay abroad. A European online linguistic
support service will be gradually launched by the European Commission starting from the year 2014 which will
provide the participants in long-term mobility activities with the opportunity toassesstheir knowledge of the language
they will use to study, work or volunteer abroad as well as to follow an online language course to improve their
competences(more details on the support to language learning can be found in Annex I).
Furthermore, Erasmus+, more than in the past programmes, will offer space for developing mobility activities that
involve partner organisations with different backgrounds andactive in different fields or socio-economic sectors (e.g.
traineeships of university studentsor VET learners in enterprises, NGOs, public bodies;teachers in schools following
professional development courses in companies or training centres;business experts giving lectures or training in
higher education institutions, companies active in Corporate Social Responsibility developing volunteering schemes
with associations and social enterprises, etc.).
A third important element of innovation and quality of mobility activities is that Erasmus+ participating organisations
will have the possibility toorganise mobility activities within a broader strategic framework and in the medium term.
Through a single grant application, covering a period of up to two years, the coordinator of a mobility project will be
able to organise several mobility activities,allowing many individuals to go abroad in different countries. As a
consequence, under Erasmus+ the applicant organisations will be able to conceive their project in line with the needs
of participants, but also according to their internal plans for internationalisation, capacity building and modernisation.
Depending on the profile of participants involved, the following types of mobility projects are supported under Key
Action 1 of the Erasmus+ Programme:
in the field of Education and Training:
o mobilityproject for higher education students and staff;
o mobility project for VET learners and staff;
o mobility project for school staff;
o mobility project for adult education staff.

in the field of Youth

o mobility project for young people and youth workers.

The short and long-term mobility of pupils as well as the blended mobility of adult learners will be supported under
Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships.
The sections below provide the detailed information about the criteria and conditions applying to each typology of
mobility project.